Historic Villa Vizcaya Mansion
Miami, Florida

This Italian Renaissance and Baroque style mansion
in Miami Florida was placed on the National Register of
Historic Places in 1970 and today it is a museum
and botanical garden that is open to the public.

Villa Vizcaya was the summer home of James
Deering, a vice president of the International
Harvester Company, from 1916 until he died in 1925.
It was designed in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque style
by architect F. Burrall Hoffman. The estate is
located on 10 acres of land on Biscayne Bay, and it
has more then 70 rooms decorated with furniture from
the 16th through 19th century.

Miami-Dade County bought the buildings in
1952 and Deering's heirs donated the
furniture and artwork to the county.
The estate is now called Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

The Gardens surrounding the estate were designed
by Colombian landscape archtect
Diego-Suarez and they were influenced
by both Renaissance Italian and French design.
Gardens include a hedge maze and the
David A Llein Orchidarium.